Monday, February 27, 2012

Not really, I've just been out of the natural gas thing for a while and I'm making things too complicated because we're working on an AFB.
Plus the company is just getting an office down here again, so we need to set up all our accounts and find out who has what.

But on the other hand I'm getting good money right now for sitting in front of the computer and shuffling e-mails and answering questions.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Shane is/was a cop and he is/was a firearms instructor.
Why is he carrying Mexican? Surely there are enough holsters around that he doesn't have to take a chance of damaging his tackle for Andrea when they leave.

I now know that this show is based on a comic book graphic novel *eyeroll*, but seriously...
Taking "Hell on Wheels" off for "Comicbook Men"????

To steal an acronym from 0bama- WTF?

UPDATE-
Is it me, or does Andrea suddenly seem to look a lot older this season?

Friday, February 24, 2012

I shouldn't be surprised at him taking credit for something he had nothing to do with, just like taking credit for Bush's plans to get out of Iraq in 2011.

Anyway, I was getting my Poly pipe fusion certs back up and was talking to some of the guys (and gals) who were there from the (BOOMING) s. Texas oil patch.
They're putting in miles of 18-24" Poly gathering lines for that Eagleford development.

The only thing the FED.GOV has to do with the whole thing is to enforce regulations.
Regulations that come from PRIVATE companies drilling on PRIVATE land which are then transported by PRIVATE companies on roads build by PRIVATE citizens paying taxes.

Those miles of plastic pipe, BTW- are made from the OIL that we have to import.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Daddybear links to a story on a Marine accused of hazing a slacker who he found asleep on watch- in the 'Stan.
He tells one of those stories that anyone should recognize if they had a good upbringing somewhere along the line.

Here's my story.

I was a booter, just out of CE A-school and the battalion was getting ready to leave Camp Covington in Guam.
The Butler huts we were living in were going to get rehabbed for the next battalion as our Advanced party left and we consolidated quarters.

SO---there being empty barracks and brand new melamine walls (Drywall doesn't last very long @ 100% humidity) and some free spray paint...and cheep beer some of us went to town on the hallway walls.
We didn't think anything of it 'till morning quarters were over and the guilty were called into Chief Hogans office.
He didn't use one foul word, but that lecture on being an adult and self control has lasted me until now.
CE-C Hogan, I thank you.

I don't have the stats to prove it, but I seem to be hearing a lot more about people going the wrong way on divided highways lately. Lately as like the last two or three years.

Which kind of co-insides with the increase of traffic and the accidents that increase when you mix all the different crappy driving styles from all the blue states mixing where the economy is still working.

Now TxDOT is going to fix the problem.
They're going to instal flashing lights at every off ramp in the city and radar ...somewhere.

Maybe they could stop more by writing those "exit only" signs in Spanish.

He also explains why each Republican candidate has taken the lead to be hammered in turn...ecxept for Rick Perry.UM: The RedState story? On Santorum’s big government – his less than conservative record?Insider: Yeah – that stupid sh-t your put up on the blog. Knock that sh-t off. Like right now. No more of it. I don’t wanna see no more of it. Obama is the target. Go after Obama and stay the f-ck outta messin’ with the other…the primary stories. At least don’t go pittin’ one candidate against the others – media doin’ enough of that. Don’t need you and everyone else like you falling right in line and doin’ the same like a bunch a braindead liberal bloggin’ fool soldiers. Focus everything – and I mean everything, on messin’ with Obama. The other stuff…the Republican primary…they are running a classic pump and dump. Been doin’ it against them for months. I warned you about it – sh-t…how long ago now? Were you not listening to me?UM: Pump and dump? I don’t recall hearing that term.Insider: I told you about that…pretty sure I did. Maybe it was someone else? Don’t matter…so long as you don’t keep fallin’ for it. You and everyone else who pretends they are paying attention to this stuff.UM: What is…what is a “pump and dump”?Insider: It’s old school politics. A political tactic. Been around since Jesus was a kid. It’s – now you remember the “McCain the Campaign” thing, right? How he was done then shot up in the polls outta nowhere. Money started pouring in. I know you gotta remember that. A political pump and dump is a version of that…it’s the version. The McCain thing was a bit of a variation but the principle is exactly the same.UM: And what is the principle? The purpose?Insider: Chaos. Uncertainty. Infighting. Repress the vote. You notice the stories about low voter turnout? You see that happening? That’s gotta be makin’ the Obama people very-very happy. Godd–mn Republicans are losing this thing. Idiots gonna lose this if they don’t get their sh-t together right quick now.
~snip~

~snip~

I’ve read the comments by people sayin’ they are conservative. If Romney gets the nomination…or if Gingrich gets the nomination…or if Santorum gets the nomination…whoever gets the f-cking nomination – they are sayin’ they won’t voter for them because “they’re just like Obama.” Really? Is that right? BULLSH-T. There ain’t nobody “just like Obama” people. Believe me. You ain’t got a f-cking clue if that’s what you really think. This country ain’t seen anybody reach the White House like Obama. Or more importantly – the people around Obama. The ones supporting and pushing Obama. Giving him the agenda, the words, the whole f-cking plan. So shut the hell up about not voting for the Republican because they are “just like Obama.” That kind of talk is comin’ from somebody who either is dumb as f-ck or is working for the campaign. The Obama campaign. And they are crawling all over your stupid Facebook thing. And leaving comments on your stories. I warned you about that. There’s gonna be more of it. A lot more. You hear somebody saying they won’t support the Republican because they are ”just like Obama” – you ignore that sh-t. It ain’t worth your time.Any of these Republicans – ANY OF THEM, are a hell of an improvement over Barack Obama. If it’s Santorum, or Romney, or Gingrich, or Paul…you fall in line and you support that candidate and you vote Obama the f-ck out. That’s the goal. That’s your motivation. PERIOD. Because if you don’t do that…if you give this administration four more years…I’ve already said enough on that, right? It’s never going back…the country…this version of America is finished and I got no real idea as to how different it’s gonna be. We won’t recognize it – I know that. I was talking to a fella last week about the Senate…plans to take the Senate. Republicans. As a stop-gap, right? You know what he told me? Looked me straight in the eye and said – “It won’t matter. He has pushed executive authority so far already…it won’t matter. Give him a couple more Supreme Court nominees…it won’t matter. If he gets the White House again…IT WON’T MATTER.”Gave me chills to hear that. This guy don’t talk like that. He’s seen and done more than me with this stuff…and he sounded downright defeated. And we’re not even in March yet. So yeah - you Republicans better fall in line when that nominee is chosen. No more of this political purity I want the perfect candidate nonsense. Grow the f-ck up and vote out Obama.

I'm not sure if this is the same WH insider as I've been reading because his language isn't as refined/educated as it usually is. So that tells me that he's really trying to get things done to oust Obama, or he's a different insider- but I doubt it.

There's riots over at Bagram right now because somehow some fairy tails Korans ended up either getting burned, or almost getting burned. Because they ended up in the trash that was going to get burned.
You know who takes out the garbage in the military, right?

OR they were going to be ceremoniously destroyed for having extremist inscriptions in them.
Of COURSE they did- it the Islamic Holy book. It tells them how to act.

I mean ...if you knew someone was a Liberal would you expect anything but twisting thing so that it comes out 180 off of what is meant?
Or to LIE about yourself, your credentials or your identity.

(In his blog on the HuffPo) Gleick publicly confessed to deceitful tactics that he described as a serious ethical slip. “In a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics, I solicited and received additional materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else’s name,” Gleick wrote.

Dude, you're a LIBERAL- you don't have any ethics.
BUT- understand that I *HAD* to do it because of those Climate Heretics... “My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts — often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated — to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate … nevertheless I deeply regret my own actions in this case.

Al Bore seen off to the side looking confused at the kerfluffle about lies and disinformation...

“The value of the family is enormous,” said Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. “The more you know this family and the more you think of Barack Obama in these terms, the harder it is to vilify him.”During his presidency, Obama’s children have rarely been featured in such an overtly political way. He has been pointed about leaving family members, especially his children, out of politics. But with the first lady enjoying high popularity, his family may become an important factor this year.
Really? Maybe where you are, but not with the people who actually have to work for the things they buy, and can't afford to jet off to Aspen with her 1% pals.

Michelle Obama has said she is “all in” for her husband’s reelection and plans to campaign about three days a week once the general election starts.
Oh, great- even MORE Air Force Two expenses we'll have to pick up.

She recently indicated that her daughters are up to the rigors of the campaign too, telling reporters who traveled with her last week that Malia and Sasha enjoy campaigning. “When they were younger, when we were first running, what was campaigning? Campaigning was you fly into a city with a bunch of young campaign workers who love kids, and they took them for ice cream,” she said. “I mean, one day I counted it — this was before ‘Let’s Move!’ We were back on the plane and I found out exactly what they were doing when I was on the stage. They had had ice cream four times that day. So Sasha is like, ‘I love campaigning!’ They’re ready to go.”
So, the First Scold is going to let them eat all that unhealthy crap she's telling the commoners not to eat?
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Obama has from time to time used selective stories about his daughters to illustrate how they keep him in the real world. The first lady mentioned recently that the president has been coaching Sasha’s basketball team.“He hasn’t missed a game,” she said.
So- no matter where in the world he is, he jets back to watch the sprogs play ball?
Good thing they don't play on a golf week-end...

Anyway, the first time anyone says anything not praiseworthy about about the newest campaign candy, you know the MSM will be allover them worse than they were about Nixon.

Speaking to a group of journalists at the Theatre Marigny in Paris, Springsteen described how the financial crisis, income inequality, and other hot-button political issues informed Wrecking Ball, which paints a picture of an America that has failed the working class. "My work has always been about judging the distance between American reality and the American Dream--how far is that at any given moment," Springsteen said. Judging by the album's tenor, he believes the gap has only become wider in recent years.
You too can help support the ones being used by the 1% by attending his concerts this summer.
Tickets start at $135 for the cheap seats and skyrocket from there.

Now, you all go out and buy his tickets and albums so he can maybe buy a mansion next to the other hero of the 99%- the wealthy Micheal Moore.

Because we all know ESPN makes a habit of firing people who make un-PC statements at the drop of a hat.

But- since it was about a race that's not a PC protected class and he's one of 'those' fundi Christians, we'll let it slide with just a halfhearted apology.
It's not like they made fun of the thinnest skinned president America has ever had, is it?

It's not that I really give a sh1t about millionaires playing a kids game, but just wanted to point out (again) the hypocrisy of the Left.

UPDATE -
An un-named employee of the very PC ESPN did get themselves fired from the stern believers of diversity and zero tolerance.

Because YOU made it wrong, you and your fellow Liberals in the NAACP are the ones that tied it directly to the clan and slavery. And all this Barbara Streisand you're spouting now about the glorious history and proud Red-necks.

While it is true that the Confederate Battle Flag has been used by extremist groups like the KKK, these groups also display the American Flag and the Christian cross in their rituals. However, the vast majority of the display of the St. Andrews Cross Flag is in a benign spirit of remembrance and reverence. I am a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, a Life Member of the NAACP, and a proud member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. As a cast member of "The Dukes of Hazzard" and the owner of several "General Lees", I can attest that the car and our show reflect the very best of American values, and that Hazzard County was a place where racism was not tolerated.

And you don't see any hypocrisy between your banning something you don't want anfd now wanting the same thing given to you...because you want it.

The only thing I'm going to say about that last column is this-
When I was in, we couldn't wear our greens (BDU'S) off base unless we were heading straight home, but we'd see the Air Force pukes members walking around the malls in their greens with unbloused pants and untucked shits and scuffed boots.

Or I've been seeing it a little more anyway.
I saw it on a blog that I can't remember the other day where he quoted someone as saying we *HAVE* to support Willard because otherwise Obama will fill the Supreme Court with Liberal Judges.

I mentioned in my comments that I doubted he would do much better than Himself that way, but we need to check his record.
I just did after something else nudged me.

Legal analysts say candidate Romney is different from Gov. Romney.Liberty Counsel Action Vice President Matt Barber said Romney’s appointments were constitutional “living document” poster children.“Many of Romney’s appointments were not only liberal, not only Democrats, but were radical counter-constitutionalists. How on earth can we expect that, as president, he would be any different?” Barber asked rhetorically.“Actions speak louder than words, and Mitt Romney’s actions as governor scream from the rooftops that he cannot be trusted with this most important of presidential responsibilities.”Barber cites two specific examples of Romney’s radical appointments.“As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney not only failed in this regard, he appointed a number of very liberal, if not radical, ‘living, breathing’-minded judges to the bench,” Barber said.“Two that come to mind were extreme homosexualists Marianne C. Hinkle and Stephen Abany,” he said. “They both had a long history of pro-gay activism, yet Romney didn’t hesitate to put them on the bench.”“These are people who outrageously believe the postmodern notion that newfangled ‘gay rights’ trump our constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights,” he said.

~But I'm sure he's had time to flop~

“Romney did focus on two criteria: their legal experience and whether they would be tough on crime. In other words, the nominee could be a gay activist or a pro-big government, pro-quota, pro-gun control Democrat Party hack who detests every judicial principle treasured by our founding fathers,” Baldwin said. “But if he happens to be tough on crime and have prosecutorial experience, he gets past the Romney filter. Many of Romney’s nominees fit that description.”Baldwin added that Romney did have some ideological criteria for many of his nominees:“It was criteria commonly used by the left. For starters, his nominees were mostly pro-abortion. Indeed, while campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney told the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) that his judicial nominees would more likely protect abortion rights than would those of a Democrat Governor, according to notes from a person attending this meeting.”Another Romney criteria, Baldwin explained, was “diversity.”“The other criteria consistently emphasized by Gov. Romney in deciding judicial selections was ‘diversity.’ This is the silly notion that judgeships should reflect the population in terms of race and gender and even sexual orientation, regardless of a person’s judicial philosophy,” he said. “Clearly, the use of diversity quotas demonstrates Romney’s lack of a coherent conservative worldview.”

So, tell me again how we just HAVE to vote for the lesser of two evils again?
...And when this country goes Greece - I want it to happen under a Democrat. This Democrat.
That way we can get it over with and restart the whole thing.
And we can use the Democrat Party as examples of why we're getting back to basics and dumping their PC bullshit.

Friday, February 17, 2012

It's a Blackberry flip that I got on E-bay for $125 unlocked so I can use my own prepaid card.

It's the third one I got.
The first one said it was unlocked, but wasn't- I guess that is just an advertising thing anymore.

The second one I got wouldn't charge for sh1it.
This one either has a battery that lasts for three days or the battery decides it only want to work for four hours.

I got this because on two user review sites it got 4 1/2 stars and very few complaints, and the ones it got -I don't care about.

I can't use it anywhere out of line-of-site to a cell tower (I live in the sticks), the 2.0MPEG camera is foggy (one of the reasons I got it), and it can't hold a charge longer than two hours off a USB charger (because the wall charger broke when I unplugged it for another outlet).

I will never get another Research In Motion product. -Unless someone else is paying for it.

When I start the new job, Ill be going to Verizon and their gzOne phones.
It worked well after they worked out their software problems, so I guess I have to bite the bullet for a good phone...

Are you one of the the 3.5 million new jobs that got created by the Stimulus Bill?

“What makes this recovery plan so important is not just that it will create or save three-and-a-half million jobs over the next two years. … It’s that we’re putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done, work that will bring real and lasting change for generations to come.” – President Obama on Feb. 17, 2009

"That would be the least amongst their weaknesses," Penn said. "It's never predictable what can happen in an American election, but we certainly believe at this point that it's becoming increasingly clear to the American people that the policies of the far right are the policies of the rich, and that they are to the exclusion of the middle class and the poor, and that no society has a future on that basis. "

Said the One Percenter who, along with his filthy rich buddies think nothing of shelling out more than the average American makes in a year for a plate of chicken at an Obama fundraiser.

You can usually chalk it up to incompetence or a glitch in the system.
But you really have to wonder why or how they ordered the local Constabulary to let an international fugitive go free.

A former Mexican government official wanted for embezzling millions was arrested in Texas this month, then promptly ordered released by the State Department in a case that has one lawmaker demanding answers.
A day after pulling rank on Smith County, Texas, law enforcement officials, the State Department rescinded the order. But Hector Hernandez Javier Villarreal was gone by then.
~snip~
Villarreal, the former secretary executive of the Tax Administration Service of Coahulia, Mexico, was arrested there in November on charges relating to an alleged scheme involving embezzling millions of dollars from the Mexican government. He posted $1 million cash bond, got himself a U.S. visa and then skipped town.

Villarreal surfaced in Tyler, Texas, on Feb. 1, when he, his wife Maria Teresita Botello and another man were pulled over for a routine stop. The couple's two children were also in the car and were turned over to child protective services.

"All we did was make a traffic stop; they didn't have a front license plate," Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith told FoxNews.com.

Police were given permission to search the vehicle and found $67,000 in cash and a shotgun, Smith said.

"When we ran the check on the shotgun, then all of a sudden everyone in federal government became interested -- ATF, (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), FBI, Homeland Security, Immigration (and Customs Enforcement) all showed up," Smith said.

He said Homeland Security officials had told his department that Villarreal was a high-profile and wanted fugitive.

Hillary Clinton's State Department ordered he and his wife free because they were here with a Visa.

Gohmert (R-TX)said he had been told that State Department officials released Villarreal because he entered the country on a valid U.S. visa, even though as an international fugitive, he should have been deported. Gohmert said he also wants to know why Villarreal was granted a visa days after posting $1 million bond following his arrest in Mexico. The visa Villarreal was granted was an EB-5, which is given to foreigners who invest at least $500,000 in a business venture.
Am entrepreneur visa they got after he posted a $1 million bond in Mexico and skipped bail.

Was that investment in 0bamas WTF plan?
That's why the word came down to let them go until they were sure to not get caught again?

The guy called his Parole Officer to tell him he had a car problem, and probably where- so WHY was it such a big deal that they get him "then"?

Nobody looked into the front windshield?

Dropping a BRANCH onto the rear window? Seriously? a BRANCH?

Then sending a dog in to be sure there wasn't anyone hiding before you used a battering ram(srsly?) to open the trunk?

Why did Chief Inspector Clouseau think that if a gun battle DID start that no one on the road would have been hit? Because of the fine marksmanship we always hear about when 150 shots were fired and three hit the subject? How do you know Mr. Criminal mastermind wouldn't target cars?

The guy already was in for some serious bux for his engine repair- who's going to pay for the bodywork now?

MEchell is leaning on candy companies to only make 250 calorie bars, or
The cost of everything is going up because of her husband- so they're selling the machines that make different sizes. You know, make everything the same size and sell the other machines..and put the people that worked on them out the door.

I'm glad I learned how to make my own chocolate candy- and I can make them as big as I want!

You can too-
Get a $2.75 chunk of white chocolate bark, a jar of Dry Roasted peanuts and some coarse Sea salt.

On very low heat- break up the chocolate (I like white chocolate- your mileage may vary, but try it) and melt till is molten- don't let it get too hot (if you can't hold the pan in your hand - it's too hot)
Add the whole jar of peanuts.
Stir well.
On a cookie sheet (or two- depending on how big you make them) lay wax paper down.
Make room in the `fridge.

Drop a spoonfull until you run out of room or chocolate-
Sprinkle Sea Salt on top (really it adds POP!)
Then into the `fridge for about half an hour.

Remove from the reefer and peel them off the wax paper, then drop them in a 1 lb a large empty cofee can- or two. It'll fill one up.
Try that with $5 of your .75c bite-size Mars Bars.
- Want my recipe for a Mounds Bar?

The only thing I took away from it is that Hollywood writers think Georgia farms are stuck in the `50's and don't have heavy equipment (except for an old tractor) to dig graves for ex-people.

And then we have the abused wife who got out of a bad relationship when her husband died in the first season falling for Shane in this last episode and perpetrating the whole abused woman falling for the same type of guy idea.

This time they're going to fix the highways- like they were going to "fix" the infrastructure with the money they wasted in the last two "Stimuli" that went to ,,,,ummm not bridges, because all of ours are all of sudden falling down.
Highways? That's a state thing, Transportation? Well the UAW does make cars....

So now we have people on both sides of the aisle talking about needing to fix infrastructure, just like fat stupid kids are a threat to our national security- right MEchelle?

I guess she is some kind of performer because she took the time last night to sing a song supposedly mocking the catholic Church...
Well, that's two and a half minutes I'll never get back.
I don't know what was so bad about it, except for the whole act, but it would be bad even if it wasn't a take-off on the Church.

Ok, Nicki Minaj- or Roman or whatever, lets see how cutting edge you are and do something to insult Islam.

But I do understand basic physics and the laws of motion.
So I don't understand how this-Changes to the rules this year have forced engineers to lower the front of the cars in an effort to improve safety. The regulations are intended to keep one vehicle from intruding upon the cockpit area of another in the event of a T-bone-type collision.
Would make designers choose this to accomplish that idea

Unless they made the weak spot right in front of the tires, because otherwise I can see the first thing to break off would be those vertical pylons under that sharp nose.

Tiny Cox, who heads the Council of Zzzzz mission to Xxxxx, said Saturday that all four candidates complain that Xxxxx's government is using its "administrative resources" to influence voters, while Xxxxx television extensively covers Xxxx's activities.

The ones who are now crowing about his two wins yesterday in The YANKEE state of Main (barely edging out Libertarian RP)- and the win at CPAC.

I'd like to remind you of what you said about the Santorum wins...It doesn't mean anything, you didn't get delegates from Maine.
“In the long term [Santorum’s wins in Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado\] it doesn’t matter,” said GOP strategist Dan Hazelwood told the Daily News, noting Santorum has simply found a niche in low-turnout, intensely conservatives caucuses.
As for CPAC- I'm glad you won, because the last winner in an election year was RON Paul- and we know ho well that went over.
It looks like the didn't have a CPAC voet in `04, or any for the previous four years of the LAST TIME they got it right in 2000 with Bush- or before.

I just changed the channel from reruns of 'The Walking Dead" to SciFi SyFy and the 2012 adaptation of Jules Verns 'The Mysterious Island'.

What I've seen so far is a reporter from the New York Times being an annoying asshole, and a Southern boy who's the Hollywood idea of a Southern racist (I guess they got the verbiage from their buddies when they know blacks aren't around I'll be watching a rerun-

Who is Nohl Rosen you ask?
He's a guy who saw that Doritos commercial about the Great Dane burying a cat collar.
This one:

And why do you think he's a dark blue Liberal, Kurt?
Because he's got about ten cats and has started a petition to get that Doritos commercial off-air.
-And he's boycotting Frito-Lay and Pepsi until they censor themselves for him...and the other PETArds who want to sign his petition.

You can got to Murphy s place to get the whole story because he deserves the hits and not cat-boy.

The one that mandates the Catholic Church to provide free contraceptive medicine for their employees, in spite of the First Amendments "separation" clause.

I've been trying to get a take on this in regards to how Liberals would feel if the State forced them to do something ...distasteful with what they look upon as a religion when I came upon this video of Joyless Behar and her take on the Texas law that requires a woman to listen to an ultrasound of her 'unviable tissue mass' before having an abortion.

No, you don't have to listen to the igrn't biatch- I'm just putting it up for perspective.
But she's saying that it's totalitarian in nature and shouldn't be forced,,,yadda, yadda, yadda....

Anyway, the same people who have no problem forcing a branch of the Christian Church to go against their core beliefs has a problem with anything that may slow down the abortion industry.

But then, I wouldn't expect anyone on the Left to see those subtle similarities...because it's not nuanced enough...

Just got done reading mail and was halfway through Mr. Johnson's post about 'Nam (yea, he posted twice in a month!) When I heard something in the wifes computer/craft room.
I looked in and one of the dogs was eating the cat food.

CHICAGO – The deaths of four Chicago-area children since late October after TVs toppled on them are prompting calls for more safety measures and increased awareness.
~snip~The Consumer Product Safety Commission says 169 children 8 and younger died between 2000 and 2010 from falling TVs. In all, 245 children died in that period after being crushed by TVs, furniture or appliances. More than 22,000 were treated for tip-over injuries each year from 2008 to 2010.

"This is not as uncommon as people might think, sadly," says John Drengenberg, consumer safety director at Underwriters Laboratories, which sets safety standards for TVs and other products. It puts TVs on a 10-degree incline and tests stability.

Because we've been told continuously from the Left that inanimate objects can take on a life of their own just to kill or main unsuspecting person.

So what does a good Liberal demand?

Gary Smith, a pediatric emergency physician in Columbus, Ohio, and president of the Child Injury Prevention Alliance, says requiring retailers to sell safety straps or mounting brackets with TVs would reduce the problem.

"We wouldn't purchase a car without seat belts," he says. "We shouldn't sell TVs without appropriate safety equipment."
Why yes- make a law to force people to be more safety conscious!

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

I saw a picture on a tangentially related post about Rick Santorum just a while ago.

Can't remember the blog, but it was a pic of a Trotskyite being dragged out after glitterbombing him.
What do you think the reaction of the MSM would be if Rick or Newt cold-cocked the guy as he was tossing that glitter?

I'm sure the Left would be howling on anger about excessive violence and the Right would have a new hero.

Mitt Romney would be over in the corner explaining that his butler -Jeeves was the one designated to do the protecting in his house.

And except for the ones I know coming from bloggers, they're usually coming from a search engine looking for "shaved cats".

Then they must be shocked by the lack of awe I have for their Chocolate Jeezus and click out as soon as they see my header- them after composing themselves open that page again to see that shaved cat...I can almost guarantee K-12.edu will do it every time.

Because NOT allowing your Catholic Chaplains to read something that their Archbishop asked them to read to the troops isn't *really* censorship.

The Army said Tuesday that a request for chaplains not to read a letter in Sunday Mass that expressed disapproval of a new regulation in the Obama administration's health care law was not an attempt to "censor," but rather a cautionary move to preserve "military order and discipline."

Because we're afraid those bible-thumping Mackerel-snappers will mutiny (or whatever the Army calls it) over one line in a letter critical of the Chicago Jeezus and his policy of forcing the Church to go against it's beliefs.

"The Chief of Chaplains was concerned that one line in the 456-word letter could be misinterpreted as a call to civil disobedience within our nation's military ranks," the statement said.

A senior Army official separately confirmed that the offending line stated: "We cannot -- we will not -- comply with this unjust law." The official confirmed that "there was a worry that would be a call for civil obedience."

The Army statement went on to say that the chief of chaplains was not rendering a judgment on the letter's message, but acted only out of "concern that a single line might run counter to proper military order and discipline.""Any suggestion that he or the Army were attempting to censor the clergy is not supported by the facts," the Army said.

Because one sentence in a church missive would upset 240 years of Army discipline.

You've got a lot of faith in your men there Chief Chaplain Rutherford.

Now that you're looking to blame all the voters that didn't swarm the polls to vote for the soggy piece of white toast you put in front of us -AGAIN.
You really need to look at WHY no-one showed up for the guy who bought his way into the race, and your usual status quo "it's his turn" ideas of no losing too badly.

You had good solid candidates at the beginning that I would have gladly voted for, but you and the rest of the so-called conservative punditry latched on to the only guy who would lose the election, because after losing to McCain- it was his turn to lose this election.

I don't know what the House and Senate look like, but I hope for the sake of out future that we have an unvetoable majority of conservatives so that there are some limits put on the wannabe dictator.

Monday, February 06, 2012

BUT- on the better side of things, I've been awarded the "Liebster Award" from both Guffaw and Pissed.

Thank you both gentlemen.
And the rules are to pass it on to worthy blogs of 200 followers or less, so we'll be updating this as we go blogsurfing tonight.

UPDATE--
In no particular order (or the order they ended up on the blogroll).

We'll start out with Flares into Darkness for his eccentric posts and letting our future overlords do some mind bending for our own good.

Then we have the wonderful Jennifer, who will go down in intratuubz history for her answer to things like the drunken Harry Potter and his views of American politics- and people who wear Carhartt chore jackets.

"So, when is Gods other Son going to get here?"
and
"Who is this white guy and why isn't he telling us God dayum America?"

Because- really? You think you're going to be able to drag the 97% of blacks who voted for that Chicago Jeezus to vote for some white guy who they've never heard of before?
And he's talking about respect for women and responsibility???

Friday, February 03, 2012

Wife checked into her Hotmail account and she can't get in because they said she sent out some hugely bogus amounts of spam..or something.
NOW...Hotmail-is asking for her cell phone #...a different e-mail address...AND her credit card #.

Is Anonymous now taking over private e-mail accounts?

UPDATE-
She's back, had to restore her (VISTA) computer to the middle of Jan. and get a new password- AND uninstall F/F and reinstall it.

They'll continue to fund Planned Parenthood so they can take the money and shove poor women to publicly funded (your tax money) health clinics. That way they don't have to waste abortion resources on something like preventative medicine for poor women.

Because the Teachers Unions deserve your tax money and free bennies for this:

But- hey, they only have so much time to teach sex-ed, gender equality and estoric poetry that they don't have time in the 8 months they teach to do those other petty things like math, history and geology.

And now the Russians have drilled into Lake Vostok which hasn't seen natural light or air in millions of years.

A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious U.S. colleagues -- and as the days creep by, the fate of the team remains unknown.

"No word from the ice for 5 days," Dr. John Priscu professor of Ecology at Montana State University, told FoxNews.com via email.

The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below the ice sheet's surface. The lake hasn't been exposed to air in more than 20 million year.

They know we the conservatives are looking for a fighter.
Someone who can take on both the Democrat smear machine and the MSM (but I repeat myself).

So they say both leading candidates have shown they can dish it out.Republicans at the beginning wanted to “sniff out who would be a fighter and take it to the president,” said Cardenas, who previously was chairman of Florida’s Republican Party. “So there has been leeway in the electorate. But I think they’ve seen enough rounds to figure out they’re all tough enough to do it. We’ve seen enough; let’s turn back to the issues.”

Really? So far all Willard has been able to do is get others to do his dirty work for him- letting the girl do his smears for him.

And just to show how cluelees the Establishment GOP is:All three of the mainstream candidates – Romney, Gingrich, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum – appear to be aware of the danger of going too far.
The lies and sending Ann Coulter out to ruin her conservative creds with lies against Newt isn't going too far?

I tell you what Mr. Establishment- Americans are a pretty independent and cantankerous bunch who are usually smart enough to see Barbara Streisand when we see it- M'Kay. So when we see obvious lies hitting one candidate from the SAME candidate who went nuclear against the guy he LOST to in the last election - we kind of go for the one being unfairly attacked.

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

They may not be terrifying or life changing or even a big event, they just do.

When I was in the Navy *Oh Gawd, here he goes again* your job was your rate -and they still do have ratings.
For you in the other services, think of it as an MOS.

Anyway, we had certain races that kind of gravitated to certain rates... White boys would be found to be a vast majority in Bravo Company with the Construction Electrician and Utilitiesmen (plumbers, pipefitters and A/C experts).
Charley Company with their Builders (carpenters and masons) and the Steel Workers (welders and re-bar tiers) were getting browner with more Latinos.
Alpha Company with their Equipment Operators (truck drivers and heavy equipment operators) and Construction Mechanics (...mechanics and hydraulic guys) had the definite chocolate feel to it.

Then came Honey Hotel Company with the office people, supply guys Engineering Aides and Mess Servicemen (cooks).
Most of the supply guys and MS's were Filipino, so we got a lot of meals flavored with a mix of Asian and Latin flavor.
...And lots of chicken. Really- lots of chicken. Especially if you got stuck on the third meal shift- then you had to get your beef at the EM club.
Anyway, we were in Gulfport for homeport and I saw on the menu that for supper we were going to have liver.
That's all I saw before I started envisioning breaded and fried slices of brown heaven smothered in fried onions.
Ummm....panfried liver and onions....

Anyway, time finally arrived for the galley to open and as I was going down the line, I couldn't see that wonderful mound of brown goodness, then I asked one of the servers about the liver and he pointed to a pan of frigging liver adobo!